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mhamel_98@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks for the replies!  How about this, instantiating Sequential_Io
> with a variant record?  The header data can be put into a record
> easily enough, so I would write the first sequential record as a
> header type with the following as the original data records.  The
> problem is, some of the header data will not be known until all the
> data records have been written.  Is there a way to edit, in place, the
> first record of a sequential file?  Thanks much again c.l.a!

Sounds as if Ada.Direct_IO would be better.

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Jeff Carter
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are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence."
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